Systems Engineering and Electronics ›› 2023, Vol. 45 ›› Issue (12): 3743-3753.doi: 10.12305/j.issn.1001-506X.2023.12.04

• Electronic Technology • Previous Articles    

Ship target detection method for synthetic aperture radar images based on improved YOLOv5

Zhuzhen HE1,2, Min LI1,*, Yao GOU1, Aitao YANG1   

  1. 1. Combat Support College, Rocket Force University of Engineering, Xi'an 710025, China
    2. College of Information and Communication, National University of Defense Technology, Wuhan 430010, China
  • Received:2022-10-28 Online:2023-11-25 Published:2023-12-05
  • Contact: Min LI

Abstract:

Aiming at the problem that target detection in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images is easily affected by noise and background interference, and the performance of ship target detection is degraded under multi-scale conditions, an improved YOLOv5 algorithm is proposed on the basis of considering the network scale and detection accuracy. In this algorithm, coordinate attention mechanism is used to suppress noise and interference to improve the feature extraction ability of the network while ensuring its lightweight advantage. The bi-directional feature pyramid is integrated to achieve multi-scale feature fusion. A new prediction box loss function is designed to improve the detection accuracy and accelerate the convergence of the algorithm. Thus, the ship target can be recognized quickly and accurately in SAR images. Experimental verification shows that the mean average presicion (mAP) of the proposed algorithm on SSDD dataset reaches 96.7%, which is 1.9% higher than that of YOLOv5s. The convergence speed is faster during training, and the network is lightweight, which has a good prospect in practical application.

Key words: synthetic aperture radar, target detection, YOLOv5, attention mechanism, multi-scale fusion

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